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Quote wall: Colum McCann
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Open elegantly. Open fiercely. Open delicately. Open with surprise. Open with everything at stake. This, of course, is a bit
Quote wall: Brian Koppelman
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > The best time to share your work is when you can't figure out how to make it better
The web sites we once were
The other day, out of curiosity, I went hunting for one of my very first web sites. I created it with a free service in 1998; most of those services were swallowed up, years later, by big tech companies, and all the sites within them held underwater until they expired.
Reading into a new year
A couple of days ago I began reading The Fifth Season [https://amzn.to/3rrordD], the first novel in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy. I'm feeling very late to this series; seems as if everyone's already read it, and here I am, just
Quote wall: Austin Kleon
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > The act of drawing is more important than the drawing. —Paraphrased from Austin Kleon's interview on the Hurry
Patience, writer-person
This might be some of the best writing advice I've ever read. > Don't rush your thinking. Don't rush to make sentences. —From Several Short Sentences About Writing [https://amzn.to/35gHVsW] by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Writing daily
I've been trying, for the last week or two, to string together as many days of I wrote words today as possible. Today, I think, means I've written daily for two weeks (with the exception of one day when nothing quite worked right). All of this
Quote wall: Note to self
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Play to the top of your own intelligence. (No dumbing down.) I can't attribute this one to Nina
The most beautiful song?
Recently saw a survey on the internet: What's the most beautiful song you've ever heard? For my money, it might just be Nancy Wilson's "Elevator Beat," played sixty-four times in a row. (Here it is on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/track/
Not enough banjos on the internet
Recently I saw a video of a musician serenading a fox [https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/s66lvs/playing_banjo_for_a_wild_fox_he_came_back_for_an/] . Afterward, I went looking for ambient/instrumental banjo music. It's hard to find that sort of thing; most